Plate 245. 
RHODODENDRON, PRINCESS ALEXANDRA. 
This is another of the beautiful greenhouse novelties which 
have been brought forward by the Messrs. Veitch, belonging 
to the East Indian, and consequently warm greenhouse section, 
which, from its delicious fragrance and delicate colour, is likely 
to be much valued by lovers of this interesting group of plants. 
There is hardly, perhaps, a more varied and beautiful tribe 
of plants than the one to which this belongs, from the dull- 
coloured hardy varieties to the magnificent Bhootan and Sikkim 
species, many of them of surpassing beauty and grandeur. We 
had thought, indeed, that nothing could exceed the size and 
beauty of R. NuttalUi , a fine plant of which we saw at Mr. 
B. S. AYilliams’s, of Holloway, with about one hundred trusses 
of bloom opening on it; but on a visit to the Royal Dublin So- 
ciety’s Gardens, at Glasnevin, near Dublin, we there saw some 
blooms of another variety, Rhododendron JenJcinsii , in which the 
individual flowers were as large as Lilium candidum , and the 
purest ivory-white. What a grand sight a large plant of this 
would be. The habit of the variety now figured, however, is 
not of that large character, as it forms a neat shrub, well co¬ 
vered with bloom, and therefore within the powers of those 
who have not an abundance of room. 
Rhododendron Princess Alexandra has been exhibited both 
before the Royal Horticultural Society and at the late exhibi¬ 
tion at Amsterdam, where, however, it failed to obtain that 
recognition of its merits which, in the opinion of competent 
judges, it richly deserved. It was, so we are informed by Mr. 
H. J. Veitch, raised by the late Mr. Veitch, of Exeter, between 
R. jasminiflora and a species which had never been sent out. 
It is similar in habit to Princess Helena , which we have already 
